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Frozen Medicine Lake in this western Minneapolis suburb hosts two dozen artist-designed ice houses. The ArtCar Taxi Shanty takes you there.
Dancers, musicians, storytellers and puppeteers representing traditions from around the world converge on the Overture Center for the Arts on State Street for this free festival. There's also food and a global bazaar.
Take a spring drive through southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa and visit artists in 29 locations in Winona, Lanesboro, Spring Grove, Harmony and Decorah, Iowa.
More than 500 artists take part in this tour of the northeast Minneapolis arts district, around the old Grain Belt brewery at Broadway and Marshall avenues.
The juried show in this posh southern Minneapolis suburb draws 375 exhibitors and 60,000 people.
This big, juried arts fair at Western Gateway Park downtown includes a jazz and wine pavilion, film festival and interactive arts projects. A free shuttle takes visitors to the indoor ArtFest Midwest at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
This fun festival is held across the Aerial Lift Bridge, on the sand spit that creates the harbor.
There's a juried arts and crafts fair, children's activities and music in this bucolic, tucked-away park along the Otter Tail River, next to an 1889 brick and clapboard mill that's open for tours. The hamlet of Phelps is just west of Otter Tail Lake and north of Underwood.
This juried art show along the Lake Superior harbor includes children's activities, art demonstrations, a pie social and live music.
This street fair in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood includes an arts fair, music, carnival rides and food. On Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m., there's unlimited beer tasting at The Beer Dabbler Showcase.
This hamlet on Lake Pepin, a favorite day trip destination for Twin Citians, becomes a shopping mecca during this big fair.
Music, food and fun in this gateway to the Boundary Waters.
There are few settings better for browsing than this village on Lake Superior. On Saturday, Bayfield artists hold a Gallery Walk.
These smaller festivals in Powderhorn Park, in south Minneapolis, and Loring Park, on the edge of downtown, are not far from the Uptown Art Fair. All are easily reached by bus shuttle or by bicycle on the Midtown Greenway.
The antiques show and flea market in this friendly little village just north of Rochester off U.S. 52 includes more than 400 vendors and 1,200 booths. There's also pancakes for breakfast, homemade pie and music.
Artists, performers and craft and food stands fill streets downtown near the Fox River.
The harbor-side North House Folk School celebrates with storytelling, traditional workshops, a fish boil and concerts by songwriter/musicians.
There's fine arts, Western and American Indian entertainment and a chili cookoff next to the Peter Norbeck Visitor Center. On Monday, 1,500 bison are herded into corrals to be sorted, branded and vaccinated.
Drive through bluff country to see 56 artists at 43 sites around Decorah, Burr Oak, St. Lucas, Waukon, West Union, Cresco, New Albin, Lansing, Elgin and Clermont.
This popular studio tour includes artists at 40 studios between Mineral Point, Spring Green, Dodgeville and Baraboo.
Art Fair Off the Square presents its winter edition in Monona Terrace, with 140 fine artists from around Wisconsin.
It's a big weekend in this historic village just north of Milwaukee: There's the Christmas in the Country arts and crafts show at Cedar Creek Settlement, Friday-Sunday; and Holiday Art Fair at the Cedarburg Community Center and Winter in the Garden Holiday Show at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, Friday-Saturday.
